Charm is the ability to insult people without offending them; nerdines…

Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Charm is the ability to insult people without offending them; nerdiness the reverse ✨ Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms, p.33, Random House
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